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Johan Jacob George 1
Sponsors were Jacob Fenstermacher and Gertraut Knoerr.
• Alt. Birth, 24 Mar 1792. 6 • Census, 1820, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. 7 Males (born) • Census, 1860, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. 8 Jacob George (age 67) is listed as head of a household including Lydia (60) and six others. • Census, 1870, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. 5 The 1870 Census lists him as Jacob George, age 78, occupation innkeeper. He is living with his wife, Lydia, age 71; and Isabella Diehl, age 15. • Book: History of the counties of Lehigh and Carbon, 1884. 9 Leather Corner Post is the somewhat odd name applied to a tavern-stand in this township. Its origin is involved in obscurity, but doubtless it arouse from some trivial circumstance. A tavern was kept here during the Revolution by Ludwig Smith, and later by Moses Coyne (who also opened a store about 1806), by Jacob Wotring about 1815, and by Conrad and Christian Bobst. In 1826, Jacob George, son in law of Woodring, became landlord, and greeted the few guests who came this way until his death in 1878, being a Boniface for the period of fifty-two years. His widow is still living, aged eighty-four, or three years younger than her husband was at the time of his death. The present hotel at the Leather Corner Post was built in 1861. It is kept by John P. Bear. • Book: Anniversary History Of Lehigh County, Volume II, 1914. 10 Jacob George, was born in Lowhill Township. For almost 70 years he was owner and proprietor of the Leather Corner Post Hotel, an old Landmark of that part of the state. He married Lydia Woodring. Issue: Reuben; Eli; Jonas; Elmina, (Mrs. Reuben Deihl); Elizabeth, (Mrs. Augur); Jemima (Mrs. Menno Klutz); Lydia, (Mrs. Fenstermacher); Daniel and George George.
Johan Jacob married Lydia Wotring, daughter of Jacob Wotring and Magdalena. (Lydia Wotring was born on 30 Oct 1799 in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA,2 4 died on 5 Oct 1884 2 4 and was buried in Leather Corner Post: Lowhill Township: Morgenland Church Cemetery, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA 2 4.)
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1 http://www.ancestry.com.
2 Morganland Church Cemetery Listing (http://www.grammesgenealogy.com/morganland_cem.htm).
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Lowhill Reformed Congregation, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 1769-1881 (http://www.ancestry.com).
4 Knerr, Katie Isabelle, Notes of Katie Isabelle Knerr (Handwritten notes of her family history, in possession of her daughter, Isabel Beacher.)
5 1870 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Lehigh County, Lowhill Township, Page 13.
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Hollenbach, Raymond E, George family : descendants of Johan Jost Gorg (929.2 GEORGE
Scott Andrew Trexler II Memorial Library
Lehigh County Historical Society
PO Box 1548
Allentown, Pennsylvania 18105-1548
http://www.users.voicenet.com/~lchs/library/index.html).
7 1800 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Lehigh County, Roll 104 Book 1, Page 173.
8 1860 United States Census.
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History of the counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Everts & Richards, 1884, 934 pgs.
), Page 297.
10 Roberts, Charles Rhodes, History Of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Volume II (Allentown, Pa., Lehigh Valley Pub. Co., 1914. 3 volumes, illustrated, maps. Prepared by a committee appointed by the Lehigh County Historical Society; chapters contributed by various writers.)
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Other names for Johan Jacob were Jacob Georg and Jacob George.